I am having problems keeping surface rust off my x-bolt eclipse 243. I clean it after every use and started wearing gloves before putting in my safe after each cleaning. The weapon shoots great and l love it just need to get the rust issue under control. No other weapon in my safe is having this problem. Anyone else having this issue?

How do you transport the gun when you hunt, is it in a case you only use for that rifle, if so perhaps there is something in the case that is doing it. Call Ruger and ask if there is a rust problem with rust on a specific run of rifles.

From the information you mention it does sound like you do need to call Ruger and be ready to give them the serial number of the rifle, as it sounds like you take care of everything and are only having a problem with it. Let us know if you come up with anything concrete.

I wouldn't call Ruger about surface rust on a Browning X Bolt Eclipse.

LOL! Since I, myself, don't stay up on all the different names of what the various manufacturers are calling their firearms, I would have thought the OP would know the firm that built his rifle and why I responded that way!

corrosion-x, try it my carry piece can stay in my truck for months without rusting, use to be a twice a month chore to take it in and wipe the surface rust off and oil it
RR

A shooting forum I belong to has a sticky on a recall of the Browning x bolt. Since I don't owning browning's I don't know what for.
Call them for from their mouth advice.

Al

It is browning I just realized I put ruger. My gunsmith said to contact browning. It shouldn't be rusting that easy.

I suspect you have a condition I refer to as Poison Hands. Some folks body oils really go after steel. My Dad was a watch maker and his tools never rusted and he could handle a rifle, put it up and it not rust. I am blessed with same.

I had a good friend in Spartanburg, SC where I grew up who was a deputy sheriff and I did not even want him to drive by my house much less touch any firearms I owned. He was the worst thing a firearm ever saw.

That was in the days before stainless steel weapons came on the scene.

Also it may be a humidity problem where you live. For instance when I was assigned to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center there was a glass blaster used for prepping guns prior to reblue as a flat non reflective surface was desired.

One day I went out to the blast room, blasted a S&W revolver and was walking back to the Armory holding it with a paper towel and I literally watched it rust as I carried it before I got back. It was only about 40 yards door to door. FLETC is at Brunswick, Ga right on the ocean.

If his other rifles were having that issue I would suspect the same thing Hummer. But since they aren't then it has to be an issue with that specific rifles finish.